This book contains rare words—the sculptor Brancusi, close friend of Peggy Guggenheim, speaks his mind: a very rare thing, because a sculptor never speaks.
           The greatest of all great poets, William Blake, who always writes in verse, this time decides to turn to prose: his memorable proverbs are entitled 'The Proverbs of Hell', and represent Plates 7 to 11 from his book, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
           Joyce, who never writes non-narratively, this time decides to turn to aphorisms, semi–aphorisms, and pseudo–aphorisms. Some are easily understandable, others require hard work in order to understand at least a little bit of what he says.
            The volume requires a highly educated reader, who knows well all three personalities in question, and really makes sense of what very often is a cryptic statement. We wish the diligent and intelligent reader good luck in this process of understanding. At the University of Torino, for instance, I devoted one whole term of study to the dissecting of one single Blake proverb. Try, in Blake, to find which proverb of all is the one which is most difficult to interpret! Good luck, says George.

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